What was the relationship between Zebedee and John the Apostle?
Zebedee was the father of John. His two sons left him in the boat to follow Jesus. Matthew 4:21-22; Mark 1:19-20
What the Bible says
Matthew 4:21
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them.
Matthew 4:22
And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
If someone told it to you in today’s words
John was in the boat with his father, Zebedee, and his brother James. Matthew 4:21
When Jesus called them, they immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him. Matthew 4:21-22
Later, the mother of James and John came to Jesus with her sons to ask him for something. Matthew 20:20 She asked that her sons sit in his kingdom, one…
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